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Overview of the events of 1932 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1932 .
Events
March – Captain
W. E. Johns ' character
Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as an English
World War I pilot in the short story "The White
Fokker ", in the first, April, issue of Popular Flying magazine, edited by Johns. The first Biggles collection, The
Camels Are Coming , ensues in April.
April 23 – To mark Shakespeare's birthday:
April 26 – The 32-year-old American poet
Hart Crane , in a state of alcoholic depression, throws himself overboard from the
Orizaba between Mexico and New York; his body is never recovered.
[3]
May – The first issue appears of the English journal of literary criticism
Scrutiny: a quarterly review , edited by
F. R. Leavis .
June 28 –
Alice Hargreaves , the inspiration for
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , meets the publisher
Peter Llewelyn Davies , the inspiration for
Peter Pan , at a
Lewis Carroll centenary exhibition in a London bookshop.
[4]
July –
W. B. Yeats leases
Riversdale house in the
Dublin suburb of
Rathfarnham and publishes Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems .
[5]
Summer
October 3 –
The Times newspaper of London introduces the
Times New Roman
typeface devised by
Stanley Morison .
[6]
October – Nineteen Irish writers led by Yeats and
George Bernard Shaw form an Academy of Irish Letters that opposes the
Censorship of Publications Board .
[7]
November 16 –
Compton Mackenzie is prosecuted under the
Official Secrets Act in the U.K. for material in his Greek Memories .
[8]
December
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 2 –
Jean Little , Canadian children's fiction author (died
2020 )
[21]
January 5 –
Umberto Eco , Italian novelist and semiotician (died
2016 )
January 18 –
Robert Anton Wilson , American novelist and playwright (died
2007 )
January 19 –
George MacBeth , Scottish poet and novelist (died
1992 )
February 7 –
Gay Talese , American literary journalist
February 9 –
Roderick Cook , English actor and playwright (died
1990 )
February 15 –
Troy Kennedy Martin , Scottish scriptwriter (died
2009 )
February 16 –
Aharon Appelfeld , Israeli novelist and poet (died
2018 )
February 20 –
Adrian Cristobal , Filipino journalist, playwright and author (died
2007 )
[22]
March 4 –
Ryszard Kapuściński , Polish journalist poet and travel writer (died 2007)
March 18 –
John Updike , American novelist and poet (died 2009)
[23]
March 31 –
John Jakes , American historical novelist (died
2023 )
April 5 –
Fănuș Neagu , Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer (died
2011 )
April 8 –
Joan Lingard , Scottish novelist (died
2022 )
[24]
April 10 –
Adrian Henri , English poet (died
2000 )
May 7 –
Jenny Joseph , English poet (died 2018)
[25]
May 8 –
Julieta Campos , Cuban-Mexican author and translator (died 2007)
May 24 –
Arnold Wesker , English dramatist (died
2016 )
June 5 –
Christy Brown , Irish autobiographer and poet (died
1981 )
June 6 –
Sara Banerji , English author and sculptor
June 18 –
Geoffrey Hill , English poet (died 2016)
July 17 –
Karla Kuskin , American children's writer and illustrator (died 2009)
July 18 –
Yevgeny Yevtushenko , Russian poet and writer (died
2017 )
August 16 –
Christopher Okigbo , Nigerian poet (died
1967 )
August 17 –
V. S. Naipaul , Trinidad-born novelist (died
2018 )
[26]
August 27 –
Antonia Fraser , English biographer, novelist and historian
[27]
September 7 –
Malcolm Bradbury , English novelist (died
2000 )
[28]
September 9 –
Alice Thomas Ellis , English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (died
2005 )
October 24 –
Adrian Mitchell , English poet, playwright and fiction writer (died
2008 )
October 27 –
Sylvia Plath , American poet (suicide
1963 )
[29]
October 31 –
Katherine Paterson , Chinese-American author
[30]
Deaths
January 6 –
Iacob Negruzzi , Romanian poet, columnist and memoirist (born
1842 )
January 12 –
Ella Hepworth Dixon , English writer, novelist and editor (born
1857 )
January 21 –
Lytton Strachey , English biographer (cancer, born
1880 )
[31]
January 28 –
F. M. Mayor , English novelist (born
1872 )
February 4 –
Mona Caird , English novelist, essayist and feminist (born
1854 )
February 10 –
Edgar Wallace , English crime writer (diabetes, born
1875 )
February 15 –
Minnie Maddern Fiske , American actress and playwright (born
1865 )
March 16 –
Harold Monro , British poet and poetry bookshop proprietor (alcohol-related, born
1879 )
April 20 –
Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician and philosopher (born
1858 )
April 22 –
Ferenc Oslay ,
Hungarian -
Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (born
1883 )
April 23
April 27 –
Hart Crane , American poet (suicide, born
1899 )
[32]
May 22 –
Augusta, Lady Gregory , Irish dramatist (born
1852 )
June 17 – Sir
John Quick , Australian politician and author (born
1852 )
July 6 –
Kenneth Grahame , Scottish-born children's and short-story writer (born
1859 )
July 20 –
René Bazin , French novelist (born
1853 )
July 22 –
J. Meade Falkner , English novelist and poet (born
1858 )
July 23 –
Emma Pow Bauder , American novelist, evangelist, missionary, and reformer (born
1848 )
August 29 –
Raymond Knister , Canadian writer (drowned, born
1899 )
August 30 –
Emma Wolf , American novelist (born
1865 )
[33]
September 5 –
Paul Bern , German-American screenwriter (suicide, born
1889 )
September 24 –
Rose Combe , French writer and railway worker (born
1883 )
[34]
October 5 –
Christopher Brennan , Australian poet (born
1870 )
October 14 –
Ahmed Shawqi , Egyptian poet (born
1868 )
November 11 –
Georgina Fraser Newhall , Canadian author (b.
1860 )
November 13 –
Catherine Isabella Dodd , English education writer and novelist (born
1860 )
November 15 –
Charles W. Chesnutt , American writer (born
1858 )
[35]
November 23 –
Henry S. Whitehead , American genre novelist (gastric ailment, born
1882 )
[36]
date unknown —
Hester M. Poole , American writer, poet, art critic (born
1833 /
34 )
Awards
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